Chantelle Marshall

“actually brought man tears to my eyes.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? —L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables”
― Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

“unyielding loyalty to a man I despise—is that Lidia North is a weak woman. Timid. Milquetoast. She has no metal in her spine, no opinions of her own. I need my friends to be interesting. To have vim and vigor.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River